chief vs top-flight

chief

adj
  • Primary; principal. 

  • Intimate, friendly. 

noun
  • A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. 

  • An informal term of address. 

  • The principal part or top of anything. 

  • An informal term of address for a Native American or First Nations man. 

  • The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. 

verb
  • To smoke cannabis. 

top-flight

adj
  • In the highest division 

  • Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence 

How often have the words chief and top-flight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )